I hope she's just sitting on the barrier. Either that or she used to be a magician's assistant before a horrible workplace accident, because I'm pretty sure we don't actually have camouflage that good yet.

Monday, March 18, 2019

I can't imagine many people are going to give MySpace another chance after they lost more than a decade of data. Their job was to keep the data their users uploaded safe and available and they failed in a rather spectacular way. If you thought MySpace was dead before...

If you're thinking of selling managed security as a service, you better be able to provide your own employees with security services (like facilities for sharing documents securely) before you try offering them to others. Otherwise you're just providing bullshit with a fancy name. According to the Imgur post, not every provider sees it that way.

This right here is one of the reasons some people call antivirus apps viruses. I remember a time when there were dedicated removal tools for certain viruses (and some other malware). When antivirus software becomes just as difficult to remove from your system as malware, it does not inspire confidence.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

I do not approve of this image. Not just because it's kinda nightmare fuel, but also because turning surveillance tools into art helps to further normalize surveillance, which does not help the fight for privacy at all.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

If you follow many InfoSec pros on Twitter you've probably heard of at least one example of this recently, but I gather it's not an isolated incident so I'll refrain from singling a single entity out when many are to blame.

Monday, March 4, 2019

I don't know whether to hate on Australia for setting a bad legislative precedent, or love them for setting themselves up as the canary in the coal mine. I guess time will tell if getting breached will teach them the error in their ways.